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When Paul Bettany was approached for the title role in Alan Ball's Uncle Frank, he was perhaps as skeptical as he was excited. "I'm a big Alan Ball fan, but also sort of a 'glass is half empty' type of fellow, so I went, 'I'm going to get the one sh*t Alan Ball script,'" the actor joked. "I read it and it wasn't, of…

The Emmys have been very good to Paul Bettany so far this year. Not only is he nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor In a Limited Series or Television Movie for WandaVision, the Marvel limited series on Disney+ scored a whopping 23 nominations. Meanwhile, his film Uncle Frank was picked up by Amazon out of Sundance and…

Uncle Frank and It’s a Sin were the big winners tonight as the Monte-Carlo Television Festival revealed the Golden Nymph Awards for its 60th annual event during a ceremony at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco. Paul Bettany took Best Actor for Miramax and Amazon’s Uncle Frank, which also scored trophies for Best Film and Best…

The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal. Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Disney+'s upcoming Marvel series WandaVision, kind of. WandaVision wasn't supposed to be the first Marvel series on Disney+, and it shows. Grafted to a premise more suited to the syndicated sitcoms on TV Land than the home of The Mandalorian, the Elizabeth Olsen and P…

Spoiler Warning: This piece contains spoilers about Disney+’s upcoming Marvel series WandaVision. Something strange is a foot in suburbia, and that’s the thread which Disney+’s upcoming Marvel series WandaVision tugs on. While Marvel has traversed the streaming space before with a number of Netflix series, i.e. The Pun…

In the latest trailer for Disney+’s WandaVision, the titular characters start off their married life on a high note. WandaVision, a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, features the titular characters as they begin to suspect that their suburban lifestyle is not as it seems. In the latest…

Alan Ball won an Oscar for his original screenplay of American Beauty, which also took the Best Picture award for 1999. Later he made his directing debut with Towelhead in 2007, but it has taken 13 years before making his second directorial effort. With Uncle Frank, he has revisited his own Southern roots to explore…

In the 1973-set drama Uncle Frank, Paul Bettany plays the titular character who takes a road trip with his partner Wally (Peter Macdissi) and his 18-year-old niece Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina where they attend the funeral of family patriarch Mac (Stephen Root). Writer and…

Amazon acquired Uncle Frank, the Alan Ball-directed drama that has been one of the early buzz sales titles at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Deal was $12 million for worldwide rigths. This was done in competitive bidding with several others in the mix. That matches the amount Searchlight Pictures paid late Sunday for…

Alan Ball is in Sundance today to premiere Uncle Frank, a drama set in 1973. An 18-year old and her NYU professor uncle take a road trip to their South Carolina home to bury the prof's father, who rejected his son when he learned he was gay. The trip will rear up past trauma that Frank has done his best to suppress…

In another Disney+ news reveal in Hall H at Comic-Con. Marvel boss Kevin Feige revealed the logo and news for the new series WandaVision. He brought out Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch) and Paul Bettany (Vision) to talk about the new series which will be “like nothing you ever seen before” in the MCU. After discussing…